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List:       konq-bugs
Subject:    Bug#45782: TTF fonts not rendering correctly in KDE
From:       Nathaniel Gray <n8gray () caltech ! edu>
Date:       2002-07-31 0:13:56
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On Tuesday 30 July 2002 05:28 am, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Friday 26 July 2002 11:10 pm, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> |
> |  It's an ugly font, but that's not the point.  The point is that it's
> | rendering *differently* in KDE windows than non-KDE windows.  Compare the
> | loops in the 'e' and the 'g'.  In KDE windows they've collapsed, but in
> | the xfontsel and gfontsel windows they're fine.
>
> it's ok, as KDE uses QT and Qt3 uses Xft for font selection and
> anti-aliasing. GNOME1 doesn't have AA. Mozilla doesn't have AA, too (excpet
> spcila builds for Xft2)
> You get different results with different libraries.

I see.  I thought they all used the same library for rasterization.

> |  > Which version of FreeType do you have?
> |  > Check
> |  > #rpm -q freetype2
> |
> |  [n8gray@golux n8gray]$ rpm -q freetype2
> |  freetype2-2.0.4-1mdk
>
> please upgrade to freetype2-2.0.9 (or newer, if available)!

That helped a lot.  I guess 2.0.4 wasn't working very well.

> |  > Besides, I recommend you to turn AA On - as this will eliminate
> |  > terrible jagged edge effect presented on your s/s.
> |
> |  I tried AA and found that it made things look worse overall.
>
> This basically means that you don't have scalable fonts installed
> (TrueType, PostScript Type1)

Nope, the problem was the old version of freetype.  It rendered scalable fonts 
really badly and anti-aliasing just made it worse.  Anti-aliasing looks 
*tons* better now.

I've still got a problem, though.  I can't figure out why some fonts are being 
anti-aliased and others aren't.  Arial gets AA even at small point sizes but 
Times New Roman is never AA.  Where do I configure these things?  I'm using 
the freetype module in X, by the way, instead of the default Mandrake setup 
with xfs.

Thanks,
-n8

-- 
>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
>>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->


(Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/45/45782.html)
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